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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Shidosyncrasy

Created by: Erik1

Pronunciation: Shid-e-o-syn-crow-see

Sentence: For shidosyncrasy the poison was in the dose.

Etymology: Shutdown (or perhaps another word) ;) + idiosyncrasy

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Captainquirk

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: cap/tayn/kwirk

Sentence: Everything was going so well until he pulled a captainquirk over and over and over - time to beam me out Scotty

Etymology: Captain Kirk + quirk

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COMMENTS:

Funny!! I always felt the captain was a bit quirky. - Stevenson0, 2007-02-15: 11:18:00

Quirky - yes - but regular - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 12:12:00

"I'm...getting the feeling...that..I...could be annoying...you" - Alchemist, 2007-02-15: 22:40:00

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Jiltrait

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)

Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.

Etymology: jilt + trait

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Habituex

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x

Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.

Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse

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Teeheedious

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: tee/hee/dee/us

Sentence: At first it was charming when the new intern tee heed after every remark the Director said - now it is just teeheedious.

Etymology: Tee Hee + tedious

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COMMENTS:

hee-larious - Nosila, 2011-02-10: 23:56:00

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Relationbug

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug

Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!

Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00

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Vexclination

Created by: ekath

Pronunciation: vex-clin-a-ashun

Sentence: His vexclinations make him near insufferable.

Etymology: from vex + inclination

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Conpeeve

Mrgoodtimes

Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: Con-Pee-Ve

Sentence: His combination of snoring and sleepwalking quickly went from cute to conpeeving after the fourth night of watching him snore walk his way into the wall.

Etymology: Con - Peeve (what used to be a propreeve is now a con)

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Tickleme

Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/

Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.

Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.

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Irrimating

Created by: MrDigdigdig

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Bob's nose picking quickly became irrimating to Linda

Etymology:

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.